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Motion sickness

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Sophisticatedsarcasm · 06/04/2018 22:07

I’m literally at wits end with my DD motion sickness. We’ve literally tried everything. Today she was wearing the sea bands and had a sickness tablet and still was sick twice. It seems to get worse as she gets older. I’m not sure what else I can try short of a horse tranquilizer 😊

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stressedoutfred · 06/04/2018 22:09

What sort of travelling? Car? Boat?

Is she doing anything? Reading? Watching Dvd? Playing on a phone?

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Sophisticatedsarcasm · 06/04/2018 22:11

It’s car, today she was watching a film, however the last 2 times she wasn’t but was still sick. It’s a 4 hour drive , we had her singing and talking because I know that helps.

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BrigitsBigKnickers · 06/04/2018 22:13

Being able to see out of the front windscreen made a big difference to my DD. She used to sit in the middle at the back and look in between the front seats.

VioletCharlotte · 06/04/2018 22:16

My DS is the same. He's 16 now and has been the same ever since he was tiny. We've found things that help are -
Sitting in the front of the car (though not sure what the law is on this nowadays and whether or not you can have car seats in the front).
Not travelling on an empty stomach or after a heavy meal.
Make sure she's well hydrated.
Travel sickness tablets.
Definitely no looking down at tablet, book, etc.

tenbob · 06/04/2018 22:29

I get car sick and have done since childhood

I can't even programme our sat nav if the car is moving, so I can't imagine how ill I would feel watching a movie! You have to stop her reading and watching films because it will almost certainly make her sick

The only things that work for me are being the driver (which isn't an option for your DD!), sitting in the passenger seat and staring out of the window, and Transderm Scop which are patches you stick behind your ears

They are prescription only but you can buy them quite easily from (legit) online pharmacy

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Sophisticatedsarcasm · 06/04/2018 22:57

Today was the first time she’s watched a movie whilst in the car. Defo won’t be letting her again but even the last 2 times she wasn’t doing anything and was still sick. Has been since she was 2. I have to sit in the front because sitting in the back makes me feel super sick. We do seat her in the middle so she can see out.

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OldHag1 · 06/04/2018 23:00

What do you do for your own motion sickness other than sitting in the front passenger seat? Have you tried anything?

NeverMetACakeIDidntLike · 06/04/2018 23:01

Following as my DD (5) is awfully travel sick.

Hers seems a bit random. Not every journey, but still have to travel with a sick bag as fairly regularly she'll throw up.

Been like it since being a toddler.

I am so sick of sick...

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 06/04/2018 23:01

stugeron.

my ds was sick on his anti sickness wrist bands.

stugeron bloody brilliant!!

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Sophisticatedsarcasm · 07/04/2018 07:35

@mumsiedarlingrevolta
We have sturgeon. We use both them and wristbands.
We use to have kwells before and they seemed to work better but no where has them anymore.

@oldhag1
My motion sickness is very weird. If I’m sitting in the front I don’t have sickness whatsoever, (unless we are driving to skegness as the roads are horrid around there) I think mine is more linked to anxiety but I don’t usually take anything as it’s not needed.

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OldHag1 · 07/04/2018 09:01

We got wells from Tesco pharmacy - there seemed to be a problem getting them about a year ago but I think all is ok now.

I can only think that yours and her motion sickness are linked. Maybe she is picking up on your anxiety.

TwitterQueen1 · 07/04/2018 09:18

I've had travel sickness all my life. Reading, watching films on in-car screens and tables won't help.

I have vowed never to go on a ferry again after the last trip back from France when I ended up rolling around on the deck chucking up non-stop (I wasn't the only one).

Nothing has ever really worked except for driving myself! And yes, sitting either in the front or in the middle at the back and looking forwards only.

chocatoo · 07/04/2018 09:36

No books or vids just looking forward, front seat is best and keep the car cool. Light meal before you set off (I used to starve DD but MIL gave the tip not to have a totally empty tum and it works). Dry salty snacks for the journey and water to sip...and this is the thing that really helps: fruit sucky sweets (boiled sweets). DD largely grew out of it to the extent that she could watch DVDs but she still struggles with coaches and routes that have a lot of bends. Try to travel at night when she will sleep.

gobbin · 07/04/2018 09:57

Being able to steady the horizon by looking out front is the only thing that helped me as a child. Also, having sick bags to hand so that if I needed one, they were to hand (so that panic of ‘where am I gonna throw up?’ doesn’t come into play). No reading, films etc. Air in the car and fairly quiet also worked.

DS was the same as a child. He isn't a great passenger even now on longer journeys. He is fine when driving himself.

FizzingWhizzbee · 07/04/2018 10:17

I have always suffered badly from motion sickness. I found Boots own tablets the best. I cannot read or watch anything while travelling by car, rail, or boat. I'm okay in aeroplanes, but only when we're in the air. I can get sick during the taxi though! The thing that makes the biggest difference in cars is sitting in the front, looking straight ahead.

ShovingLeopard · 07/04/2018 10:25

Oh dear, following as my DD has had horrendous motion sickness since 8 months and now, at 2.9 we barely go anywhere in the car. Somewhat limiting!! She's been prescribed cyclizine, which we've yet to try. She's too little for the wrist bands to be tight enough, and of course it doesn't help that she rear faces. She will literally be sick within less than 5 minutes of setting off.

I think it runs in the family, as I'm still not great at 40 plus! DD's paediatrician mentioned that it's linked to migraine, but neither DH or I are migraineurs.

crumble82 · 07/04/2018 10:31

I’ve always suffered badly from motion sickness, my parents intimately knew most of the lay-bys in a 50 mile radius! I think they tried wristbands, stugeron, everything on the market in the 80’s. Nothing really worked but some things made it worse like reading. The best thing was always to leave me alone to shut my eyes and stay very still. Audio books were a good option. Good luck.

VioletCharlotte · 07/04/2018 11:22

The only thing that seems to really make a difference is sitting in the front. When you go out as a family, could you drive, DD in passenger seat and DH in the back. But of a pita for him, I know, but better than her being sick!

mummyzzzz · 07/04/2018 12:02

Ginger biscuits and ginger ale. I've always suffered with travel sickness. We used to play endless eye spy type games to have me focused on things outside the car and not on my sickness. Sleeping or talking to me constantly were probably the only things which seemed to prevent it.

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